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Karen Wilkin

United States

Art Critic and Curator at Freelance

Contributoring Writer at The Wall Street Journal

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  • 1 week ago | wsj.com | Karen Wilkin

    The American painter’s first major retrospective, now at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, paints a thorough portrait of his artistic progression. BostonA painting by Stanley Whitney is easy to identify: a not-quite-regular grid of bold colors with assertive horizontal strokes for emphasis. But recognizing this distinctive image is not enough. We have to approach, slow down and pay attention.

  • 2 weeks ago | wsj.com | Karen Wilkin

    Conservation efforts by Save Venice restore the radiant colors and empathetic forms of the painter’s monumental work. Tintoretto’s “Crucifixion” in this city’s Sala dell’Albergo (“board room”) of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, completed in 1565, provokes hyperbole, and not just because of its impressive size—a monumental 17 by 40 feet.

  • 2 months ago | wsj.com | Karen Wilkin

    Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts offers the first major exhibition devoted to these canvases, featuring 14 of the works Van Gogh created of the postman and his wife and children in the late 1880s. At the beginning of 1888, Vincent van Gogh, about to turn 35 years old, moved from Paris, where proximity to the Impressionists had expanded his abilities as a painter, to the Provençal town of Arles.

  • Mar 22, 2025 | wsj.com | Karen Wilkin

    New YorkWhat is conjured up by “Weimar Republic”—the democratic government of Germany between 1919 and 1933, the fraught years between the nation’s defeat in World War I and its takeover by the Nazi Party?

  • Mar 1, 2025 | msn.com | Karen Wilkin

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